Chapter 1
This is a condition characterized by thoughts, feelings,
and behaviors that create dysfunction.
What is a mental disorder?
This is a list of questions to be answered by research
participants.
What is a survey?
This is a newer field of study shedding light on how social, psychological, and environmental influences can actually change which genes in a person's DNA may activate or may be turned off, having significant implications for the development of disorders.
What is Epigenetics?
This is the manual published by the American Psychiatric Association that is currently the most favored in the U.S. for diagnosis of mental disorders.
What is the DSM-5 (TR)?
This attributes mental illness to
possession by evil or demonic spirits, displeasure of
gods, eclipses, planetary gravitation, curses, and sin.
What are Supernatural Theories?
This is the number of new cases occurring during a
specific period of time relating to mental disorders.
What is Incidence rate?
Instead of the medical model that emphasizes mental illness as disease, this model strives for a more holistic approach by recognizing that each patient has their own thoughts, feelings, and history
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
These are useful to test for cognitive or
neurological impairments, deficiencies in knowledge, thought process, or judgment.
What are cognitive assessments?
This is a set of negative attitudes and
beliefs that motivate individuals to fear, reject,
avoid, and discriminate against people with
mental illness.
What is a Public Stigma?
This is a committee of individuals often made up of members of the institution’s administration, scientists, and community members made to review proposals for research relating to humans.
What is an Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
Freud believed that feelings of anxiety result from the ego’s inability to mediate the conflict between the id and superego. Freud believed that the ego seeks to restore balance by reducing anxiety through various protective measures
What is Defenses Mechanisms?
This refers to the ability to consistently produce a given result and any instruments or tools used to collect data do so in reproducible ways.
What is Reliability?
These are the 4 D's.
What are deviance, distress, dysfunction and danger?
The Supreme Court of California held that mental
health professionals have a duty to protect individuals
who are being threatened with bodily harm by a
patient.
What is Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California?
The goal of this type of therapy, created by Carl Rogers, is to create conditions under which clients can discover their self-worth, feel comfortable exploring their own identity, and alter their behavior to better reflect this identity
What is Person-centered therapy?
This committee is charged with ensuring that
all experimental proposals require the humane treatment of animal research subjects.
What is the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)?
This is a face-to-face encounter between a mental health professional and a patient in which the former observes the latter and gathers data about the person’s behavior, attitudes, current situation, personality, and life history.
What is a clinical interview?
These are the ethical standards related to situations many psychologists may encounter in their professional roles?
What is the Ethics Code?
This type of therapy is a very large group of psychotherapeutic approaches that help clients examine how their thoughts affect their behavior.
This model helps us understand
why one person might develop a disorder, or why two people from similar backgrounds might develop different disorders
What is the Diathesis Stress Model?